Remembering shoe-cleaning

[mtbc]

I still find that my parents are much in mind. For me there is much to appreciate about my childhood with them. Earlier this week I finally got around to again polishing the leather shoes that I wear to work. As a child, cleaning our shoes was a weekly chore that I did with my father. The wooden brush that I used this week for applying the polish still bears his handwriting on the back.

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[muninnhuginn]

Weekly, you say? Daily, for me.

Possibly something about my paternal grandfather having been in the shoe-making business. And my dad having got his Queen's Scout award.

It stopped when my dad stopped being a salesman and started working shifts. Hence there couldn't be a regular time to do the group shoe-cleaning and he started going to work in his (new-fangled) trainers.

[mtbc]

Ah, goodness. My father did National Service in the RAF and his father was career Navy but it sounds as if I got off lightly.

[muninnhuginn]

As a confirmed Daddy's girl, I was quite happy. Now if my mam had insisted.... ;-)